The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1887-11-10
A9rirultural.
..WIlL RENE OUT. OR QUIT OUTn

Is what young farmer said to US
las week, prefacing this remark with
the statement that many in his COM
munity were making short crops Of
cotton Those farmers who are ready
to rent out" or "quit out" we would
refer to the old grammars pages
where on they read in their school
boy days the sentence, 'disappoint-
meat siak Tie heart Of man, but re-
nevA If hope gives consolation.
After THIS farmer had departed, and
after rejecting upon what he had
saiG. we we're constrained to ask our
seir, to whom will they trent out p
And what are the inducements to
''reat OUT: Then running back in
memory over the last twenty years,
we were impressed with thought that
renting out had already been
great drawback to the farming inter
es.s and agricultural progress of this
country. Have tenants generally
prospered in this country during this
period What are the conditions
to-day, OF those farms which have
been rented out principally, Tor
the last twenty years as compared
with those which have been cultiva-
tel under the direct supervision Of
the owners thereof? TO whom, we
again ask, will they rent outY
Cln the farmers of this country find
lass of tenants superior,to themselves
in Intelligence, in vim, in energy.
in ambition. If so, who and where
are they! Where, oh where upon
the face Of the broad earth is there
any other calling that sustains itself,
SO well as agriculture? Ii you start
out upon the hunt, where will you
hnd men that approximate independ-
ence OF thought ard feeling, if not
upon the farms where they domicile
under their own vine and fig tree
About ninety per cent. of merchants
wind up in failure; an occasionally
occasional lawyer climbs by hard
struggles into easy circumstances
nearly al the doctors are constantly
fighting against loss; most mechanics
exc out a bear subsistence; editors
as class. shelter under the placard
OF poverty; but the prudent industri
Gus farmer moves on in the even
tenor Of his way, with regular habits
blessed with health, and subsistina
on his ''hog and hominy" There j,
no class Of citizens in this republic o.
Ours so much at ease of body and
mind, SO free and so near independ
coce, MS our farmers 4 they will but
exercise their prerogatives. If short
age in crops befalls their efforts an,
begets this inclination to 'rent out,
they shouldremembor that that short
age bears also upon other classes
SAch reverses fall not upon one clas
alone, but upon all No, to "reu
out is not the remedy.
Again, what is meant by, or con
tanning in the words quit out" ",
may not clearly comprehend. 1t Ger
taiuly does not mean that the wheel
Of agriculture must stop. For thel
would the machinery Of all bushes
snud sull, desolation would cove
the earth las the waters cover tn
deep and starvation would at one
claim the people for its own. There
fore, while for the farmers OF thi
country, the owners of the soil, L
'rent out would sound the dealt
kuell to our prosperity as a people
yet TO quit out would be indehntel,
worse. Nevertheless from the light
before US, and from present surround
ings We see 40 cause for our peopl,
to despond. And we are glad tina
our faith in the pluck and energy o
cur working, Industrious farmers, dis
pols the idea Of their ever permittin.
themselves to succumb to temporar!
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